Jack Butler (4 May 1901 – 10 May 1986) was the last native speaker of the Jiwarli language of Australia. As the last speaker, he was the primary source for the documentation of the language. He was the son of a white father, a shepherd named Dick Butler, and an aboriginal ...

Sir George William Henry Jones (1874 – 3 January 1956) was a British barrister and Conservative politician. Jones spent his early years in business before deciding to study law in his thirties, and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1907. He continued a successful legal practice until ...

Virgil Oliver Trucks (born April 26, 1917) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1941 through 1958, Trucks played for the Detroit Tigers (1941–1943, 1945–1952, 1956), St. Louis Browns (1953), Chicago White Sox (1953–1955), Kansas City Athletics (1958) and New York Yankees (1958). He ...

Anthony Lewis (born March 27, 1927, New York City) is a prominent liberal intellectual, writing for The New York Times op-ed page and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. He was previously a columnist for the Times (1969–2001). Before that he was London bureau chief (1965 ...

Eddie Bond (born July 1, 1933 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States) is an American pioneer singer and guitar player of American Rockabilly music. In the mid 1950s, Bond recorded for Mercury Records and toured with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Warren Smith and others ...

Thomas Ray Williams, known as Ray Williams (born October 14, 1954, in Mount Vernon, New York), is a retired American professional basketball player. He was listed as a 6'3" (1.91 m) and 188 lb (85 kg) guard. He averaged 15.5 points per game and 5.8 assists ...

Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Russian: Бори́с Абра́мович Березо́вский, born in Moscow on 23 January 1946) is a former Russian oligarch, government official and mathematician, member of Russian Academy of Sciences. Although once a supporter of Vladimir Putin, Berezovsky clashed with the new president soon after his election in 2000 and remains a vocal critic ...

Josef E. "Joe" Weider (born November 29, 1919) is co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) along with brother Ben Weider and creator of the Mr. Olympia, the Ms. Olympia, and the now-defunct Masters Olympia bodybuilding contests. He is the publisher of several bodybuilding and fitness-related magazines, most notably ...

Chinua Achebe (born 16 November 1930 as Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe) ( /ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ/) is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He is best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African ...

Harlon Junius Hill (born May 4, 1932 in Killen, Alabama) was a standout player at Lauderdale County High School and later as an offensive end at Florence State Teachers College, now known as the University of North Alabama, being named an NAIA All-American in his senior year (1953). He later ...